This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is of a young lady in a boat on a trip to nowhere.
I
found a couple of boat photos in my Nanna’s album.
The
first is of Nanna beside the Titanic
– a classic little model.
Mum thinks she is probably on one of the dams on the
family property in Beeac, in Victoria’s Western District.
The
next is of my Nanna with a parasol in a slightly bigger boat with a group of
friends.
They are probably on Lake Keilambete a popular boating and fishing
spot for the family.
Lake Keilambete (an Indigenous name) is one of Victoria’s
crater lakes located just north of Terang, Victoria towards Noorat.
The
third is of Nanna, her sister in law and their four children on the Queen Mary, their pet name for their big
old dinghy.
The vegetation looks like they could be somewhere on the Mornington
Peninsula (SE of Melbourne) where we spent many childhood holidays.
My mum
(with the long plaits) is in the centre, sitting on the edge. Her cousin, Ian
looks like he is pretending to row.
I
was thinking that dinghy is a strange word so looked up its origin. Here’s the
explanation from the Webster Dictionary.
Titanic & Queen Mary; love the boat names!
ReplyDeleteThe shot of the Queen Mary on the beach is very funny -- your mother looks like MY mother did, with long braids (you call them plaits).
ReplyDeleteThank goodness your Nanna was a boat-loving lady who has prvided us with so many perfectly themed images for this week.
ReplyDeleteI've got photos of my father and his siblings sitting around in beached boats and remember doing it myself.
ReplyDeleteThe second picture looks so peacefully idyllic with the ladies shading themselves from the sun with pretty parasols and the fellows casually rowing along. Makes you want to sit back, take a deep breath, and let it out with sigh of longing for a carefree afternoon somewhere on a lake or pond or stream . . .
ReplyDelete"Dinghy" sound so much like "dinky" that I think of all dinghies as being dinky.
ReplyDeleteFabulous names ! Thanks too for sharing the origin of the word dinghy - I'd never really thought about it but I like finding out where words come from.
ReplyDeleteFirst boat is interesting as it possibly just one shaped sheet of corrugated iron
ReplyDeleteSecond boat probably on a river as Lake Keil...... is a perfectly round volcanic lake. One of the best preserved
The third photo was taken at Warneet on Western Port Bay
We obviously did not give you all details. Too worried about iPad to Computer lessons
Thanks for adding this info Dad, or is it Mum?
DeleteI love all their outfits.. and not a life jacket in sight. How different it would look now.
ReplyDeletehadn't thought about that!
DeleteI thought the first boat was metal too, made of corrugated sheeting. Long pigtails and a tartan(?) skirt - quite fetching. Three ideal photos for the theme, enhanced by the family connections.
ReplyDeleteIt almost looks like a school uniform, but an odd place to be wearing it.
DeleteYour family certainly loved posh boats.
ReplyDeletehaha
DeleteA great set of photos and they look to be having fun "messing about in boats".
ReplyDeleteTaking this in another direction...I remember a party album my folks had with a song called, "Davey's Dingy." I think they all had to get a bit rip snortin' to enjoy the album. It was over my head as a child.
ReplyDeleteQuite wonderful photos.
The Titanic...
ReplyDeleteNot a name I would have chosen,
personally...
:D~
HUGZ
It doesn't look like it would float very long though - maybe appropriate!
DeletePerhaps...
Delete:D~
Sitting in a boat is always fun, either on the water or on the sand.
ReplyDeleteYour family had quite a sense of humor when it came to naming their boats. "Titanic" wasn't such a good choice, though. LOL
ReplyDeleteThree great boating photographs, even though in two of them the people are actually going nowhere :-)
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